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Victors and Postwar Colonialism
The Cold War into the Sixties
The Korean War - occupation, China intervenes,
negotiations
The Cold War, 1953-60 - Eastern Europe, nuclear
terror, Cold War mindsets
Anti-Communism and Military Regimes in Greece and Indonesia
More Latin America
Guatemala into the 1950s - from Ubico,
to the overthrow of Arbenz and the Armas regime
Brazil into the 1960s - from Getulio
Vargas to the overthrow of Joćo Goulart
Argentina, 1966-88
- military dictatorship,
murder and disappearance (edited Feb/2008)
Nicaragua to 1990 - Somoza dictatorship, the
Sandinistas and the United States
Guatemala to 2006 - Civil war and democracy,
from Reagan to Clinton
China, Japan, India and Pakistan
Mao's China - leaps, Sino-Soviet dispute,
Red guards and capitalist roaders
China under New Leadership - Deng Xiaoping,
Tiananmen troubles, ten years later
Racial Equality, Vietnam, and Extremists
Jonestown - Jim Jones takes his people to mass
suicide
Africa into the 1990s
The Continent of Africa - from the 1980s,
population, politics and economies in general
New Directions in the West and East Europe
Political Conservatives in the West - Hayek,
Kirk, Strauss, Buckley, Ayn Rand, Reagan, Thatcher, Spain, Sweden
The Soviet Union Disintegrates
- Brezhnev, Gorbachev
and reforms, freedoms in 1989 (edited
Feb/2008)
The Middle East
Arabs and Jews to 1950 - from World War
II to the creation of Israel
Jews Flee Arabic Homelands
- attacks on Jews and the disappearance of ancient communities
The Iranian Revolution - the Shah against
dissent, victory for Islamic reactionaries
Muslims and Israelis, 1976-88
- Camp David, the U.S. in Lebanon, war in Afghanistan, intifada
Trends into the 21st Century